Who donated money to a politician? We’ll Tweet all about it.

A late entry into OpenIowa hopes to make campaign contributions public almost immediately.

Paul Ludington, 35, of Paul Ludington Consulting, and Kevin Powell, 33, a developer with Pioneer Hi-Bred, have teamed up to start work on the as-yet-unnamed product that could potentially send out campaign contributions on Twitter.

While there still is a lot of work to be done, the idea stems from the open-data competition that has taken over StartupCity Des Moines for the weekend.

Here are two other teams hard at work on their projects. A third team is set to arrive soon. All of the project names are tentative. When the third team arrives, we will update this post.

Vote Up or Shut Up

Team members:

Chad Brewbaker, 32, programmer at Telligen and Iowa State University graduate student

Andrew Kirpalani, 30, developer for California-based Ensighten

Rob Jensen, 30, of Wells Fargo

Micah Honeycutt of the Iowa Democratic Party and Tom Henrickson of Dice

Premise

The group worked until about 2 a.m. Friday night and was back at work Saturday morning. The application will use voter information to let people know all about the voting history of people in your social networks.

Homeless Helper

Team members

Rebecca VanDeCasteele, 23, in advertising at the Des Moines Register

Mike Naughton, 21, Iowa State University computer science student

Sud Ramasamy, 33, software engineer at Nationwide

Becky Mollenkamp of StartupCity Des Moines

Dylan Capdevila, 20, paid volunteer at Central Iowa Shelter

Premise

While most of the team left relatively early, Ramasamy stayed on hacking away until about midnight. This one is my personal favorite as it brings resources for homeless people into one location so case workers can more easily refer those who need help to them.